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Independent Journalists Put Spotlight On FERC

March 11, 2016 Faith Meckley, www.faithmeckley.wordpress.com Resist! FERC, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Faith Meckley for Faith Meckley - I traveled to New Milford, Pennsylvania on March 3 to meet a family who was in the process of losing the quiet woodlands on land they have owned for three generations. After refusing to cut a deal for their property with the company building the Constitution Pipeline, the company used eminent domain to forcibly take the land and begin cutting down trees. The Constitution Pipeline was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an agency responsible for reviewing and approving liquefied natural gas terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines, and hydropower projects.

Newsletter: Using Courts To Build The Movement

March 6, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Cimate, Climate Change, Courts, Exxon, FERC, Fracking, France, Fukushima, GMOs, Japan, Okinawa, Zapatistas

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. The worst crimes of US history have been protected by law – slavery, taking of Indigenous lands, attacks on unions, denying women the vote and money as speech in elections. As a result, when politicians say we are a nation of laws, it often means the courts will be used to protect corporate interests in making a profit even if doing so destroys communities, people and the environment. But, courts do not always side with the corporations and government. There are times when an enlightenment comes to the judiciary and some begin to rule for the people or their communities. This happens because even courts reflect the political moment – or zeitgeist – when the culture takes a turn thanks to people organizing to express their interests wherever they can. We may be at the beginning of such a moment, perhaps too soon to say and perhaps we are being optimistic. It shows the importance of the movement building national consensus because such consensus impacts everything.

Environmental Group Sues FERC Over Conflict Of Interest

March 4, 2016 Tom Johnson, www.njspotlight.com Resist! Environment, FERC, Oil and Gas, Revolving Door

By Tom Johnson of NJ Spotlight. Ratcheting up a fight against the expansion of natural-gas pipelines, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network yesterday filed a lawsuit against the federal agency that oversees construction of such projects. In a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the group claimed that the review and approval process for pipeline projects by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is infected by structural bias. The lawsuit is seeking fundamental changes to the agency that -- the group asserts --would make it accountable and consistent with democratic governance. The lawsuit alleges the bias is based on the agency’s financial structure, which recovers the full cost of its operations through the charges and fees assessed on the industries it regulates.

Taking Steps To A Renewable Future

February 19, 2016 The Sugar Shack Alliance, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Democracy, FERC, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

The Sugar Shack Alliance. Windsor, MA - The 4-day, 53-mile intergenerational walk will follow roads near the proposed route of the Kinder Morgan Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, from one proposed compressor station location in Windsor to a proposed compressor station in Northfield. Food and lodging will be provided. There will be evening events for the walkers and general public. We walk to increase public awareness of the negative impact of this pipeline and fracked gas everywhere. We walk to highlight the consequences of continued fossil fuel use and global climate change. We walk to build an unstoppable movement aiming towards a renewable future. Join with friends, family, and neighbors as we walk through ten towns in Western Massachusetts!

FERC Valentines Require Special Delivery

February 19, 2016 Anne Meador and John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! FERC, LNG, Pipelines

By Anne Meador and John Zangas for DC Media Group - “Clean energy policy means never having to say you’re sorry.” A twist on the catchphrase from the movieLove Story was the message delivered on Wednesday by anti-fracking activists to heads of a federal energy agency. Hoping that the four current voting members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would get into the spirit of Valentine’s Day, they made special in-person deliveries of cards, flowers and balloons to their homes in Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Virginia.

The FERC Valentine Project

February 12, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Climate Change, communicide, FERC, Oil and Gas

By Beyond Extreme Energy. This Valentine's Day, Beyond Extreme Energy, front line communities and allies everywhere will send a message to the FERC commissioners. We protect what we love and we expect FERC to do the same. Take a moment to print copies of the BXE valentine or create your own and mail them to the FERC commissioners. Home is where the heart is so we encourage you to send these messages to the FERC commissioner's homes (addresses below). This is no secret love, so before you drop your valentines in the mail, declare your love to the world! If you made your own valentine, snap a pic and then share your pic or the valentine we provided on Facebook or Twitter.

Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising

February 7, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Newsletter Banking and Finance, Blockades, Climate Change, Extraction, Exxon, FERC, Flint, Fracking, Groundwater, Indigenous Peoples, Lead, Leonard Peltier, Pipelines, Police violence, Uranium

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. A key ingredient of previous successful campaigns to stop 'free trade' agreements is cross-border solidarity. Uniting struggles globally, as well as locally, is critical for other issues as well. Via Campesina, a movement started by peasants in 1993, has grown to become a global movement that recognizes the intersectionality between food security, land rights, the climate crisis and transnational corporate power. They work together to both resist harmful policies and to create necessary alternatives by organizing seed exchanges and impacting public policy. Similarly, global solidarity is increasing around the climate crisis.

Group Sues Feds To Stop Pipeline

February 7, 2016 Joe Mahoney, www.thedailystar.com Resist! FERC, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Water

By Joe Mahoney for The Daily Star. With the $700 million Constitution Pipeline project held up by New York environmental regulators, the company began clearing the pathway near the project's starting point in Pennsylvania on Friday after getting permission to do so from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Meanwhile, in two separate legal actions, Stop the Pipeline and the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society filed notices in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the opening volley of civil court challenges to FERC's decision to issue a certificate of necessity to the natural gas transmission project. The opponents had been prevented from mounting a court challenge to the pipeline project until FERC last week denied their formal request for a rehearing on the certification decision issued in December 2014. The new legal challenges were brought against FERC, not the pipeline company. "This is the first step in a long process,"

Prelude To A Revolution, Ode To A Sleeping FERC

February 4, 2016 JLSTEWCT, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Energy, FERC, Fossil Fuels

By JLSTEWCT for Beyond Extreme Energy - Every third Thursday, the morning bustle of Washington, DC’s Union Station plays host to a monthly prelude. Small tables are haphazardly pulled together and the 8am ritual commences. Gathered in a circle and passing around food and coffee, we plan our next round of unwelcome Truth Injections. The objective–to crack a little known but terribly powerful entity near the heart of the Fracked Gas Empire. This entity is frightening, but it houses no monsters. Instead, it houses something far more grotesque–a form of unacknowledged violence persisting under a bureaucratic veneer.

FERC Should Review Indirect Impacts, GHG Emissions

January 25, 2016 Jeremiah Shelor, www.naturalgasintel.com Educate! Environment, EPA, FERC

By Jeremiah Shelor for BGI - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week that FERC should require applicants seeking approval under the Natural Gas Act to provide more information on a project’s indirect impacts, including potential increases in gas production and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. EPA submitted comments Tuesday on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Draft Guidance Manual for Environmental Report Preparation for Applications Filed Under the Natural Gas Act. FERC released a revised version of its guidance manual, which had not been updated since 2002, last month...

FERC Commissioner Finds Irony In Protest

January 22, 2016 Anne Meador and John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! FERC, Fracking, Protests

By Anne Meador and John Zangas for DCMediaGroup - An official at a government agency responsible for permitting gas infrastructure took a potshot at protesters who were disrupting a public meeting on January 21. As Commissioner Tony Clark announced that he was leaving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission when his term expires, he sniped at what he seemed to think was the demonstrators’ ingratitude for a primary service FERC performs: greasing the wheels for gas companies to build pipelines, storage facilities and compressor stations to fuel the electrical grid.

Newsletter: Why Protests Will Continue To Grow

January 16, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, #FightFor15, Black Lives Matter (BLM), China, Climate Change, COP21, Corporatism, Democracy, Economic inequality, Empire, Environment, FERC, Finance and the Economy, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Iraq, Jobs, militarism, Necessity defense, oligarchy, Poverty, Russia, Solar Energy, Stratfor, Syria, TPP, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This week the reason that there are a growing protest movement and growing disenchantment with government was put on display. The divergence between government and reality was thrust in our faces. The entire government came together, Members of Congress, the Cabinet, military leaders, the Supreme Court, Vice President and President (minus the 'selected survivor' in case the Capitol was attacked, the head of Homeland Security) to hear the State of the Union. The choreographed self-praise of people who will spend $5 billion this year of mostly big business money to get re-elected was evident from the moment the door was opened. Hugs and kisses, backslapping all around, required applause as the President approached the podium, more staged applause when he was introduced and then, as if they were trained, dozens of standing ovations on cue – 89 times in a 58-minute speech the President was applauded.

165 Groups Demand GAO Investigation Of Agency Abuse

January 15, 2016 Delaware Riverkeeper, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Accountability, Environment, FERC, health, Oil and Gas

The Delaware Riverkeeper. Washington, DC - On January 14, Popular Resistance joined the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, hundreds of other organizations and thousands of concerned community members in calling for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC). The letter urging Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren to use their key seats on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to call for a GAO review details FERC’s ongoing bias toward the same pipeline companies it is intended to regulate and highlights the toll this abuse of power has taken on local communities.

Your Charity Case, Frack That, Oil Trains & Paradigm Lost

January 13, 2016 Eleanor Goldfield, occupy.com/actout Resistance Report Cove Point, Export Terminals, FERC, Fracking, Non-Profits

By Eleanor Goldfield for Act Out. This week:--- 'tis better to give than to receive – but who are you giving to and who's really receiving the gift? With the help of non-profit employee and activist, Anna Kaminski, we dive into the non-profit industry and peek behind that shiny charity veneer. Next up, from coast to coast, let's talk the fossil fuel industry – fracking, oil trains, export terminals oh my. Activists are making gains but they need your help in taking this fight up to the next level. But first, you have to lose it – a paradigm lost. @ActOutOnOccupy facebook.com/ActOutOnOccupy occupy.com/actout

Feds Block Citizen Web Portal As Key Deadline Looms

January 4, 2016 Mary Serreze, www.masslive.com Educate! FERC, Kinder Morgan, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Mary Serreze for Mass Live - Foes of interstate gas pipeline expansion in New England cried foul Sunday night as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's e-filing system remained shut down, three days before a key deadline passes for citizen participation in the matter of Kinder Morgan's proposed 415-mile Northeast Energy Direct. Individuals, towns and businesses hoping to apply as "intervenors" in the pipeline case have until 5 p.m. on Jan. 6 to file motions with the federal regulators. But they have been blocked in their efforts since Dec. 31, and were previously blocked from the FERC web portal over the long Christmas weekend.

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